Perennial herb, solitary, or suckering to form small groups of plants, acaulescent or older plants with a very short stem.

Leaves

Leaves in a dense rosette, erect and curving inwards, 30–40 cm long, 6–9 cm wide toward the base, ovate-lanceolate, greyish-green or often bronzed, obscurely lineate and usually without spots on the upper surface, with few to many whitish spots scattered or arranged in transverse bands on the lower surface; margins cartilaginous with pungent deltoid red-brown teeth 3–4 mm long, 8–12 mm apart.